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Myth and Legend of Ancient Israel
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartAngelo S. Rappoport; J. H. Amshewitz
London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1928.A collection of Jewish legend and Judaica compiled by Rappoport from biblical, Talmudic and midrashic sources, with colour plates by the painter J. H. Amshewitz.
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Kontrol
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmund Snell
London: Ernest Benn, 1928.Inter-war sci-fi thriller. “..an exuberant Scientific Romance with thriller elements, in which a Mad Scientist switches genius brains into athletes’ bodies, then wipes their minds clean, in order to create a race of obedient Supermen; he is under the control of a Soviet master operator, whose network operates a fleet of futuristic vertical-take-off aerial juggernauts and a Dystopian supercity on a secret Island. All ends in flames.” (SFE)
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Armed with Madness
AU$3,250 Read MoreAdd to cartMary Butts; Jean Cocteau
London: Wishart & Company, 1928.Experimental novel based on the myth of the Holy Grail. A one time student of Aleister Crowley, Butts is credited as a co-author of the 1912 Magick (Book 4). In 1921 she spent time at Crowley’s Abbey of Thelema, not enjoying her stay, and departing with a drug habit. Armed with Madness explores the relationships (including homoeroticism and bisexuality) and ritualism among a group of young bohemians living at a country home. Considered a masterpiece of Modernist prose. One of 100 numbered copies of the Deluxe Edition on handmade paper with illustrations by Jean Cocteau.
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Italian Pleasure Gardens
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartRose Standish Nichols
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928.First printing of the third and final in American landscape architect Rose Standish Nichols’ (1872-1960) studies on the gardens of Europe, preceded by English Pleasure Gardens (1902) and Spanish and Portuguese Gardens (1924). Italian Pleasure Gardens was the first to be illustrated with photographs taken by Nichols on her travels, there being near 200 illustrations throughout.
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The Miracle of Celanese Brand Fabrics
AU$800 Read MoreAdd to cartCelanese Corporation of America
New York: Celanese Corporation of America, 1928.Early promotional booklet for Celanese, a cellulose acetate “artificial silk” fabric, produced by the Celanese Corporation of America. The firm, a Fortune 500 company still operating today as Celanese, the name being a portmanteaux of cellulose and ease, promoting the new product as easy to clean and care for. The booklet is illustrated throughout by Robert L. Leonard (1879-1958), a pioneering figure of American decorative arts, design, and illustration. Having studied and worked as an illustrator in Munich, Berlin, and Paris before migrating to the United States in 1923, he brought with him a modernist style which is on full show in the colourful art deco illustrations. Leonard was a founding member of the American Union of Decorative Artists and Designers and edited the first Annual of American Design in 1931. A rare treat of 1920s fashion and illustration, with only 1 copy recorded in OCLC, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library.
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Dragons and Dragon Lore
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartErnest Ingersoll
New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928.With an introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn.
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Secretarial Course: Business Correspondence
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartHemingway & Robertson
Melbourne: Hemingway & Robertson, 1928.Six part series of specialised secretarial coursework for use of students of Hemingway & Robertson Proprietary Limited, consulting accountants and coaches.